October 2017 Premier Auction

About one hundred and fifty 1960's, 1970's, and 1980's first day covers. Please see photos online for samples. City: Sta...

Lot of thirty-four. Mostly 1940's. Includes a 1947 5c Air Mail. Please see photos online. City: State: Date: HWAC#...

Lot of thirty-eight. Ten blocks. Nine have a sheet number. Many different and not common. A couple for first day covers from other events. Some warpi

Lot of thirty-three. Two commemorating Confederate soldiers, two Gettysburg (One block of four), Shiloh, Ticonderoga, Fort Sumter, naval aviation, wom

Lot of 19. Four panes, two multiple sets, one unofficial South Africa 1 1/2 cent 1949, etc. Please see online photos. City: State:

Lot of thirteen. Two unusual legal sized unofficial first day covers. Amazing unofficial Russian FDC of the 1975 Apollo Soyuz mission with an American

Lot of thirty-eight. Includes 1939 Golden Gate Station, 1938 Los Angeles County Fair,1947 USS Constitution, two 1936 unofficial Oregon centennial cove

8 covers of Arkansas to St. Louis U S Air Mail Route 107 City: State: Arkansas Date: 1951 HWAC# 52024

Eleven covers of the first Helicopter flights in the Los Angeles area. Service went to LAX from surrounding urban areas. City: Los Angeles

Los Angeles, New York, Boston flying post office demonstration flight covers. Mail sorted in route. Sixteen covers. City: Los Angeles S

Santa Rosa and Monrovia covers, both pictorial advertising cachets. City: Santa Rosa State: California Date: 1938 HWAC# 5

San Diego, Laguna Beach, an Visalia represented among these sixteen covers City: Southern California State: California Date:

Twenty eight covers, some from small towns like Salinas, Modesto, Monterey, Lancaster, Stockton. Large amounts from San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Seventy plus covers from east coast states all the way from Massachusetts to Florida, including New York city helicopter service City:

Three covers including PAA Clipper on Hawaii Clipper City: State: Hawaii Date: HWAC# 52003

Four covers from Louisiana, one from South Dakota, one from Tennessee, one from New Jersey, and one from Missouri. Air mail at the time was 6 cents.

Seven air mail envelopes for service out of Detroit. Stamp price went from 5 cents in 1926 to 7 cents in1959 City: Detroit State: Mic

Four U S Air Mail Route 86 covers from Minnesota City: State: Minnesota Date: 1952 HWAC# 52025

Twelve first flight covers from Nebraska. Cities like Omaha, Lincoln, and Columbus City: Omaha, Columbus State: Nebraska Date:

A dozen or so first flight covers from cities like Boulder City, Reno, Hawthorne, Ely, and Carson City.

Fifteen New Mexico and five Texas First Flight Covers City: State: New Mexico Date: HWAC# 52005

Three Ohio, five Illinois, and four Indiana first flight covers City: State: Northern Plains Date: HWAC# 52012

Five Oklahoma, six Kansas, two Arkansas, and five Missouri covers in thi Midwest section of America. City: State: Oklahoma Date:

United States Air Mail "First Flight" Covers. Fifteen covers from Virginia, Georgia, The Carolinas, Tennessee. Notable cities are Augusta ...

Five Alabama, one Mississippi, and four Louisiana first flight covers, ten total. City: State: Southern Date: HWAC# 520

Lone Star State first flight covers, eighteen in all. City: State: Texas Date: HWAC# 52016

United States Air Mail covers, four Virginia, one Kentucky, and two Tennessee. City: State: Virginia Date: HWAC# 52021

Two Montana, Three Arizona, Three Oregon, One Washington, and five Colorado First Flight Covers City: State: Western States Date

Five covers from the air ship USS Macon ZRS-4. Built in Akron, Ohio and stationed at Moffett Field, Mare Island, California was lost at sea off of Big

Eleven covers all with cancelled stamps from U S Navy ships. Ships of was like the New Mexico, Wyoming, Frigate Constitution, Shark, California, Aldeb

Lot of 12. Five S. S. United States covers of maiden voyage from New York to South Hampton. Christing or Launching covers of U S Navy ships, USS Smith

Four covers from returning war ships from WWII. USS Heron, USS Seagull, USS Cachalot, and one announcing "The fleet is home" City...

Lot of fifty-six. Forty different. All pictorial and most are in color. City: State: Date: c1944 HWAC# 52930

1) "Who says we can't defeat the so called super race in 1944?" Orange lightning strike. 2) "He is just another [photo of a hors...

Lot of three pictorial covers. 1) "Nazi Divisions! Ha! Ha! Russian Winters Too Cold. Now Too Hot here." 2) :The Japs are pretty good ball ...

Lot of five. Two with "Want me for our Pin-up Girl? One in color of a school girl sitting at a desk. Two say, "Yes Siree---The Yanks Again...

Lot of thirteen. Twelve are pictorial: American flag, army jeep, colored branches of service, colored Declaration of Independence, colored warships, c

Lot of forty-three. Almost all have identification of censor. Some have initials, but many have name and rank. Envelopes are in poor to good condition

Lot of twenty-seven. All with "Passed by Naval Censor" in a round stamp. All initialed. Envelopes are in poor to good condition. ...

1896 Tallac double ring. 'LLA' is lightly struck. Full cover advertising on back. Soldier's Home received on obverse. Nice looking piece...

Tahoe Tavern 1939 advertising cover. 'Truckee & Lk. Tahoe' cancel. Opened very roughly. The 16 mile rail line between Tahoe and Truckee ...

Cover from Mecca, CA lowest post office in US at 188 feet below sea level, and Climax, CO. highest post office in US at 11,320 ft. City: Me

Envelope from George H. Hilbert, Sheriff and Tax Collector of El Dorado County addressed to Mr. James Lodge of Siskiyou County. 6 x 3 1/2 inches. Po

1) Double circle postmark. Target killer. March 11th. Corner advertising for Mercantile Gazette of San Francisco. 2) Double circle with circle grid ca

Envelope (no letter) from Columbus, Mississippi to "Miss Hamilton, c/o Col. Hamilton, Laurel Hill plantation, West Feliciana, Louisiana". ...

Illustrated 1908 cover and letterhead for Charles Gulden Mustard addressed to S.R. Buford in Virginia City, Montana. Letter discusses an infringement

Lot of 13 covers, 10 with contents, for carriage and wagon companies. c.1890s-1910. All are addressed to Buford in Virginia City, Montana. Includes: t

Lot of ten covers with contents addressed to Buford in Virginia City, Montana. Includes: Griggs, Cooper & Co. (olive container pictorial, 1908);...

Lot of seven covers with contents, c.1890s to 1910. All addressed to Buford in Virginia City. Includes: Borden's Condensed Milk with great conte...

Lot of six covers with illustrated letterheads. c.1880s to 1910. All addressed to Buford in Virginia City, Montana. Includes: Jones-Paddock & Co...

Lot of 6 covers with contents (pictorial letterheads). All are addressed to Buford in Virginia City, Montana. Highly pictorial! Includes: Rueckheim Br

Lot of seven covers w/ letterheads all addressed to Buford & Co. to Virginia City, Montana. Includes: Heinz with pickle illustration (1904) and ...

7 postal covers from Montana to locations such as Virginia City, NV, Butte, MT, Tonopah, NV. c. 1907. A letter from Morris and Flint Mines and Minin

Lot of 12 covers or postal cards without contents, all sent to Buford in Virginia City, Montana. Includes: B.F. White, Forwarding & Commission M...

This postcard has an awful lot going for it. One of the most impressive photos of the Rawhide fire we have ever seen. One can see a very black plume o

Redlich is an R-8 according to Gamett & Nelson. Very nice cancel on a Goldfield postcard. Note says, "I have a good job, but it is an out o...

Photo is done by J. A. French.Jonathan A. French. He was a quite well known photographer with his studio on the East Side Central Square. The town its

Cancel stamp from Lorch, Wiirth and Frankfort, Germany to Lakehurst N. J. U. S. A. via the airship Hindenburg. German stamp shows Swastika, another th

Forty five covers for various American airport openings and dedications, cities such as but not limited to Tyler, Peoria, Oklahoma City, Corona, Norfo

Ten covers announcing the dedication of new airports in San Rafael (US Army), Madera, Stockton, San Bernardino, Glendale, Marysville, and Corona.

Riverside, Lynwood, Los Angeles, Fresno, San Pedro, Canoga Park, Brawley, Burbank, Colton, Fullerton, and Alhambra represented among these twelve cove

More than three dozen covers for first day post offices, U S Air Mail flights, Airports, Post Office dedications. Grab bag, too many to name them all.

Twenty covers. First trip, via Highway Post Office, Modern Pony Express (not the original), and U S Air Mail City: State: Date:

Mailed from Reverend Abiel Silver July 5, 1856. Reddish Brown postmark with square grid and manuscript cancel. City: Concootook(ville)

Slightly faded Scott Confederated #3 stamp of Andrew Jackson, issued in 1862. Unused with a small lower left corner tear. Based upon descriptions of

Type B1 imprint. These are usually only seen on financial documents. These two different billheads are for goods received on the Erie Railway and from

Well over 200 items. Sure to find some real treasure of New York and United States stamps. Please see photo online for an idea of what you may find he

Lot of 30. Includes four New York and Pennsylvania documents. Each has a United States stamp including a $10.00 large greenStock Transfer. Also $2.00

Over 150 documents! All stamped. Sutro Company of San Francisco, Otis Company of Denver, BankAmerica of Los Angeles, Paine Webber Boston, Vercoe of Co

Lot of five. Includes two Boston billheads: John C. Calrow and James Tolman. Also a large 25c US brown stamp for appointment of lawful attorney for th

Lot of 60. Almost all pre-1876. Banks include 1) Ocean National Bank in Newbury, 2) Chemical National Bank of New York, 3) Bank of Chemung in Elvira,

Lot of twenty. From $2.00 circular to 30c light green, $1.00 circular, $3.00 rectangular, to 40c light blue, to twenty cent orange, to $4.00 green, et

Includes New York $1.00 with black border, pair of light brown US Revenue, pair of US Green $1 large document, pair of $3.00 large green Stock transfe

Over 30 items. Companies from around the country. First California Company of San Francisco, Rogers & Tracy of Chicago, Bank of Montreal Agency ...

Well over 250. Mostly small red stamps, but plenty of small and large green stamps. Most interesting might be the six $10.00 large green (includes a t

Two best are probably are three consecutive $5.00 large blue (fourth has been ripped in two) and a $10.00 large red. Many have New York and Massachuse

Includes many, many hundreds - see photo. We have not gone through these at all! Treasures surely await if they are anything like the ones we did go t

Includes many stamped documents folded in a shoe ox - see photo. We have not gone through these at all! Treasures surely await if they are anything li

Well over 250 pieces of paper. All have Boston stock transfer stamps and either United States stock transfer stamps or United States document stamps.

This monument was erected in 1884 in New Orleans. The statue itself rises 16'6" tall, with an 8'4" base, standing on a 60' col...

CDV of a Naval Officer possibly post war by C. M. Bell of Washington, DC. Photo of an engraving of Admiral Foote, 1860-1863. No photo logo. Foxing t

Two salt print photos which was a method dominant from 1839-1860. Confederate Pvt John Thomas Dixon, Co. I 56th Virginia, and his mother. Dixon part

Two soldiers with V. A. on kepi style hats. Possible post Civil War. No photo logo. City: State: Date: HWAC# 51615

Image of a youthful soldier, possibly a drummer boy in a shell jacket. Photo by Smith & Huey, Indianapolis. City: State: ...

A photo of a Civil War soldier in his frock and 2 family members. No photo logo. City: State: Date: HWAC# 51613

Photo was taken by E. Anthony in NY from a photographic negative from Brady's National Portrait Gallery. This general helped design the battle f...

CDV of Confederate Naval Officer by Spillman of New Orleans. Henry Spillman was a photographer in New Orleans from 1863 to 1867. CDV has retouched ha

Lincoln, his VP and cabinet members in a circular pattern surrounding Lincoln. Scarce. City: State: Date: HWAC# 51616

General US Grant lived 1822-1885. No photo logo. City: State: Date: HWAC# 51617

CDV of a Union soldier in a shell jacket. Possibly from Pennsylvania. Deibert Studios some water staining on reverse, light water impact on front.

Civil War letter dated June 13, 1865. Letter from Calvin to his mother. Talks of troops coming home, crops, and wanting to go West. 8" x 5&qu...

Post war copy of a Civil War soldier in a shell jacket. c. 1890's. No Photo logo. City: State: Date: HWAC# 51614

Photo of a painting of General Sterling Price of Missouri. This photo was used on the cover of Confederate Veteran magazine May-June 2017. A copy of

Confederate Block I infantry button, dug and missing back. Very wide I. Albert's Bicentennial book page 375, plate CS185A. Has rust and corro...

A rare buckle with approx 76 to 150 known to exist. Dug and missing the belt loops. Same as plate 203, page 115 of Confederate Belt Buckles and Plate

Bronze delegate pin with Generals Bartow and Morgan portraits around the Confederate flag. Stamped on the back "Newark, N.J." Cit...

The Confederate Mail Carrier or From Missouri to Arkansas by James Bradley. 275 pages. Front internal binding is starting to seperate. City:

1) Antique female china doll in complete outfit. Good condition, one china leg has been repaired. 13" high. 2) Male Civil War doll, dressed in ...

This lot consists of many Confederate veteran items including a ribbon from October 1917 of Louisiana Veterans Vicksburg Reunion of Blue & The G...

Albumen photo of a US Cavalry officer on a horse, c. 1920's. The Cavalry guarded the US border with Mexico until 1943 Photo has been trimmed a...